Originally Posted by becominghorse

Not necessarily, because universities are also very tradition-bound and academics (as in things like art history) are often very rigid and can be destructive. Mostly agree otherwise.



Would also disagree with that, because the matter of 'smartness' and 'intelligence' do matter very often more than great education. That said, educated people, even when slobs, are the ones who are educated in the specific sense, and there often is a tremendous difference. If I get your drift, you're probably just annoyed at people talking about less educated people in a way to minimize the obviously higher level of intelligence of the more educated USUALLY. Education does increase the intelligence (No it doesn't. It gives that person more tools with which to confront life, but it never makes them more intelligent. Education is simply a tool, like a saw or a hammer, for bettering one's life. Reading skills are a tool. ) in certain ways. I'm very educated by any standards so I'm obviously more sympathetic to the benefits of education. But I do also know many less-educated people who have kinds of intelligence that I definitely value more than a particular Cambridge, UK dyke I have in mind at the moment.